Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori-Hamedani ( fa, آيت الله العظمى حسين نورى همدانى ) (born March 21, 1925) is an Iranian

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Marja. Nuri-Hamadani has been called a "hard-line cleric". He has expressed his strong disapproval of Sufis and dervishes,

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, the intellectual

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and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Biography

Hosein Nuri-Hamadani was born in Hamadan,

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. After finishing elementary studies in Hamadan, at the age of 17 he moved to

Qom Qom (also spelled as "Ghom", "Ghum", or "Qum") ( fa, قم ) is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. Qom is the capital of Qom Province. It is located to the south of Tehran. At the 2016 census, its popul ...

, Iran to continue his religious studies. He studied in the seminaries of

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and

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. He currently resides and teaches in the Seminary of Qom.

Views and activities

Among his reported views are that Iran "must purge universities of anti-Islamic and atheist professors." In September 2006, he called for a clampdown on dervish groups in Qom. He also issued a fatwa against the attendance of women in stadiums. In early 2008, he issued what some see as an implicit death threat against Iranian intellectual

, saying "Soroush’s writings are worse than

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's", and "Abdolkarim Soroush’s religious theories have undermined the roots of prophecy, the

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and holy revelations". In connection with the Iranian legislature's ratification of a bill on Iranian membership in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), ISNA reported Nuri-Hamadani issued a statement on 2 August 2003 describing the convention as "calamitous and tragic, as well as a Western and U.S. ploy to harm Islam." According to him, when the convention was brought to Qom, all the religious authorities opposed it as contrary to Islam. In 2022, he urged the Iranian government to listen to the demands of the protestors.

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Iran move to defrock dissident ayatollah opens rifts in theocracy
''CSMonitor''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Noori Hamedani, Hossein People from Hamadan 1925 births Living people Iranian grand ayatollahs Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom members

Biography

Views and activities

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